[bfblack]

I recently had a need for some engineering properties of wood. The US Forrest Products Lab (FPL) in Madison, WI has a reference report entitled "Wood handbook: wood as an engineering material". It is a free download (15 MB) at

https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/37440

A lot of woodworkers prefer Baltic Birch over US manufactured plywood. Of course the FPL does not characterize non-US manufactured products. I found the attached Baltic Birch plywood reference from the Finnish Forest Industries Federation. Now I know why the 18mm thickness is likely to be more like 17.6mm.

 

[Tagwatts]

Thank You Sir, .
I am always looking for new material to read and learn from.

Thanks good information.

 

[MEBCWD]

A lot of good information in those documents.

 

[thomas1389]

A very interesting read. Good stuff.

 

[TWheels]

Thank you very much for this information. I had been looking for exactly this kind of document.